Pervert teacher jailed after setting up secret camera to film pupil, 17, in shower

POLICE found more than 1500 child porn images on IT teacher Gordon Milne's laptop.

A TEACHER who set up a secret camera to film a pupil in the shower was yesterday jailed for 18 months.

IT teacher Gordon Milne, 33, was caught after police found more than 1500 child porn images on laptops at his home.

Among them was footage of the 17-year-old girl taken during a climbing trip.

Police raided Milne’s house in Forfar after a tip-off and seized two laptops and a mobile phone.

He claimed he downloaded the sick pictures out of “professional curiosity” after his predecessor at the school, Angus McCormack, was caught with 7600 pictures and 10 hours of videos.

Milne had set up the hidden camera in a communal bathroom during the expedition in Derbyshire.

Officers showed the film to Milne’s wife, who was able to identify the girl. He was suspended by Angus Council, has since been sacked and now faces being struck off as a teacher.

Fiscal depute Keith Robertson told Dundee Sheriff Court: “Computer experts examined his laptop and as a result a further search warrant was obtained because indecent images of children were found as well as a video of a teenage girl being recorded in the bathroom.

“Police spoke to the accused’s wife and showed her the video clip of the girl, who she identified as a pupil at the school where the accused taught.

“The accused and the girl shared a rock climbing hobby and were regular climbing partners.

“They had gone to the Derbyshire Peak District on a week’s climbing ­expedition, staying in separate rooms with a communal bathroom.

“The victim was unaware that she had been filmed naked in the shower.

“On his mobile phone the footage was found and Milne can be identified setting up the recording device, which appears to have been his mobile phone.”

Milne, 33, now of Rait, Perthshire, pleaded guilty to having indecent ­photos of children and making indecent ­photographs of children between November 2011 and January 2013.

Sheriff Tom Hughes told him: “There were heartbreaking consequences for the person you were involved with - she placed a considerable amount of trust in you and looked up to you.”